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Guide to the Perfect Otaku Girlfriend: Roomies and Romance #1
Guide to the Perfect Otaku Girlfriend: Roomies and Romance Volume 1
If I’m going to find a girlfriend, she has to be an otaku. She’ll be beautiful, innocent, with long black hair, and she’ll like all the stuff that I like!
Kokoro Nishina, the girl I’m living with, is the exact opposite of that. So why did I promise that I’d turn that flashy, extroverted gyaru into the ideal otaku girlfriend?!
Sadly, I know just how it feels to need a little self-improvement to find the perfect date... and there’s no way a girl like that will tell her friends that she’s actually a closet fujoshi. But I’ll teach her—then maybe she can teach me too! With my expertise, she’ll definitely become an otaku’s dream girl!
Kokoro Nishina, the girl I’m living with, is the exact opposite of that. So why did I promise that I’d turn that flashy, extroverted gyaru into the ideal otaku girlfriend?!
Sadly, I know just how it feels to need a little self-improvement to find the perfect date... and there’s no way a girl like that will tell her friends that she’s actually a closet fujoshi. But I’ll teach her—then maybe she can teach me too! With my expertise, she’ll definitely become an otaku’s dream girl!
197 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 30, 2021
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June 21, 2021
I like the concept here, two nerdy people of the opposite sex living together, helping each other find a romantic partner, not realizing how they are perfect for each other. It's just so badly written... This might be the case where the simple prose works well in Japanese but comes off as amateurish in English, I'm not sure, either way I couldn't shake the feeling that I was reading bad fan fiction.
July 3, 2021
Ehh, dropped it at 27% ish. I started because I like Omae Wo Otaku, but the way this started and came together was way too convenient for my taste. The two meet at a hookup party and both want otaku partners, and after some arguing, the girl suggests a partnership where they help each other become "ideal" partners for other otaku.
For one, it's really similar to Omae Wo Otaku, but their partnership accelerates so fast, and I find it really hard to believe such a capable, perfect girl would have issues seeking people out on her own. And what qualifications does the MC even have to be guiding her? He has no experience just like her, whereas she at least has experience being fashionable and such. I just don't buy it how conveniently she agrees to listen to his instructions and the acceleration there was too fast too.
I also think the way he jumps out of the closet when her parents are telling her of the overseas work transfer and offers her stay with him in his solo room is also EXTREMELY stupid and absurd, even the hopeless romantic of a father believing the boyfriend lie and allowing it.
For one, it's really similar to Omae Wo Otaku, but their partnership accelerates so fast, and I find it really hard to believe such a capable, perfect girl would have issues seeking people out on her own. And what qualifications does the MC even have to be guiding her? He has no experience just like her, whereas she at least has experience being fashionable and such. I just don't buy it how conveniently she agrees to listen to his instructions and the acceleration there was too fast too.
I also think the way he jumps out of the closet when her parents are telling her of the overseas work transfer and offers her stay with him in his solo room is also EXTREMELY stupid and absurd, even the hopeless romantic of a father believing the boyfriend lie and allowing it.
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May 7, 2024
This is self-help/edutainment in disguise. It's got some solid advice for otaku trying to connect with members of the opposite gender (especially those who are also otaku) but who lack social experience/practice doing so.
The structure is loose, slice-of-life more than rom-com, with a lot of situations familiar to those who enjoy anime/manga. The main characters (and side characters) are cliches in and of themselves. While the overall situation is extremely contrived and trope-heavy, remember that this work is using cliches to communicate with its readers.
The characters explain different types of media, the appeal of certain moe types/situations to certain consumer bases, and discuss interpersonal communication, keeping expectations realistic, and personal hygiene and styling advice. Fanservice-y scenes are periodically dispensed to make the advice more digestible.
I enjoyed this more than I thought.
The structure is loose, slice-of-life more than rom-com, with a lot of situations familiar to those who enjoy anime/manga. The main characters (and side characters) are cliches in and of themselves. While the overall situation is extremely contrived and trope-heavy, remember that this work is using cliches to communicate with its readers.
The characters explain different types of media, the appeal of certain moe types/situations to certain consumer bases, and discuss interpersonal communication, keeping expectations realistic, and personal hygiene and styling advice. Fanservice-y scenes are periodically dispensed to make the advice more digestible.
I enjoyed this more than I thought.
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